VSCode Theme Unicornio Dark

Introduction

Unicornio Dark is a theme for Visual Studio Code that I developed to share with the members of my free technology community (unicornio.dev).

Team & Role

-Theme developer

Tech Stack

This project was developed to learn how to create a custom theme and how the process works to upload an extension to the Visual Studio Marketplace.

• 1.

  VSCode --> For development and testing

• 2.

  VSCode Yeoman extension generator --> To generate theme's boiler-plait files

• 3.

  VSCE publishing tool --> To deploy on VS marketplace

Spotlight

This project allowed me to learn the necessary details to generate and publish an extension for Visual Studio Code. It was an interesting process that led me to read a lot of documentation in order to publish the extension correctly.

Lessons Learned

Developing this theme surprised me with the number of color variables a theme can have and how to optimize their uses to highlight syntax elements of different languages. It was a very good experience and I plan to continue expanding the project with new versions.